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Google Drive Authentication

Authentication

Authentication profile for the Google Drive API v3. The captured OpenAPI does not declare securitySchemes, so this profile was upgraded from Google's Drive auth documentation. All Drive API requests require an OAuth 2.0 access token (three-legged for user data; two-legged service-account / domain-wide delegation for Workspace). API keys authenticate only fully public file reads. Scope detail lives in scopes/google-drive-scopes.yml.

Google Drive secures its APIs with oauth2 and apiKey across 2 declared security schemes, as derived from its OpenAPI definitions. OAuth 2.0 is offered via the authorizationCode, deviceCode, and jwt-bearer flow(s).

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Methods: oauth2, apiKey Schemes: 2 OAuth flows: authorizationCode, deviceCode, jwt-bearer API key in: query

Security Schemes

OAuth2 oauth2
· flows: authorizationCode, deviceCode, serviceAccount
key apiKey
· in: query ()

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Authentication Profile

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generated: '2026-06-20'
method: searched
source: openapi/google-drive-openapi.yml
docs: https://developers.google.com/workspace/drive/api/guides/about-auth
description: >-
  Authentication profile for the Google Drive API v3. The captured OpenAPI does
  not declare securitySchemes, so this profile was upgraded from Google's Drive
  auth documentation. All Drive API requests require an OAuth 2.0 access token
  (three-legged for user data; two-legged service-account / domain-wide delegation
  for Workspace). API keys authenticate only fully public file reads. Scope detail
  lives in scopes/google-drive-scopes.yml.
summary:
  types: [oauth2, apiKey]
  api_key_in: [query]
  oauth2_flows: [authorizationCode, deviceCode, jwt-bearer]
schemes:
  - name: OAuth2
    type: oauth2
    sources: [docs]
    flows:
      - flow: authorizationCode
        authorizationUrl: https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/v2/auth
        tokenUrl: https://oauth2.googleapis.com/token
        refresh: true
      - flow: deviceCode
        deviceAuthorizationUrl: https://oauth2.googleapis.com/device/code
        tokenUrl: https://oauth2.googleapis.com/token
      - flow: serviceAccount
        description: >-
          JWT-bearer (RFC 7523) service-account flow, optionally with Workspace
          domain-wide delegation to impersonate users.
        tokenUrl: https://oauth2.googleapis.com/token
    revocation: https://oauth2.googleapis.com/revoke
    discovery: well-known/google-drive-openid-configuration.json
  - name: ApiKey
    type: apiKey
    in: query
    name: key
    sources: [docs]
    note: Authenticates access to publicly shared files only; cannot access private user data.